Subject: Re: SETI@home clients being built
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
From: Brian D Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 05/19/1999 16:09:35
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 01:21:38PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> > Woo!  Please make sure there's an arm32 client... :-)
> 
> whetstone says, only 3.6 MIPS :-(

I'd love to see the code for the SETI@Home client, or at least the math
behind some of it.   Based on the output, it seems fairly FFT intensive.
If they are using a lot of floating point, I bet the code could be tweaked
to rely a lot more on integer ops without compromising your results.

-brian.
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